<TITLE>10. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 See, the conversation went on for quite a while. What was He doing? Now watch, that's Jesus yesterday. He's contacting her spirit, finding what her trouble was. And the conversation went on about worshipping at Jerusalem or in the mountain. And in a few moments, Jesus said... He found where her trouble was. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "You said well, for you've got five, and the one you're now living with is not yours. Now, I've said well."
Now watch her. She didn't say You are a devil, a Beelzebub. Quickly, she rose up. I can see her great dark eyes sparkling. She pulled the veil around her head. She looked. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Oh, my. She knowed more about God than many a ministers does today. That's right. I hate to say that, but that's true. She knowed more about God. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet."

L-39 How many will agree with her? All of us. He's a God-prophet that--that Moses spoke was coming. She knew that. Listen to her words. "I perceive that You are a prophet." Not a Beelzebub, like the teachers said. But, "You are a prophet. We know... We Samaritans know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things."
See, that would be the sign of the Messiah. "The Messiah'd tell us all things when He comes." In other words, "You must be His--His prophet, because You knew that. That was something in... my trouble. That's where I'm in trouble, is by being a--an ill-famed woman. And You don't know me. You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan. But I'm taught and believe that the Messiah will do this. But Who are You?"
Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks to you." Oh, what a word.
On that, she dropped the water pot, and ran into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" What is the works of God?

L-40 Now remember. That sign was not given to the Gentiles. You don't find it in the Scriptures. Why? They wasn't looking for it. But now, there's one more generation of people left, one more, I would call it "class," or "strain," or whatever you want to call it, of people, that was the Gentile. He prophesied in the last days what would take place. And the... that He'd forgive them for their mockery, and saying It was a evil spirit. But the Gentiles would know better.
Now, we're at the end time of the Gentile age. When God is called on the scene, He has to act every time the way He acts the first time. If a sinner ever repented, and asked God to forgive him, and God forgive him upon the basis of his repentance, God's got to act the same way the next sinner calls on Him.

L-41 See, we are finite; He's infinite. Infinite, they just... You can't explain what infinite is. And here's one little conception of what it is. Before the world was ever formed, He knowed every flea would be on the earth, and every time it would ever bat its eyes. Now, that wouldn't halfway make what infinite is. He knowed everything from the beginning to the end.
Someone... I made a remark like that, and they said, "Then why did He permit sin?" Sin works for His cause. In God dwelt all the great glory. If there had not been a sinner, He'd never been a Saviour. In Him was the attributes of a Saviour. And sin had to project itself in order for Him to be a Saviour. Which is the most powerful, a sin--a sinner, or sin or grace? Grace, of course. Which is the most powerful, a sickness or a healer? Well of course, the--the healer has power over the sickness. And God, if there'd never been sick person, He'd never be a Healer. So there had to be sickness to make Him what He is, a Healer. There had to be sin to make Him what He is, a Saviour. Sure.


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